Bonadventure
Type: Surveilance Corvette
In Class: ?

Mass: 100,000
Sail Integrity: 3
Thrust: 4/6
Fuel: 3000 tons
Structural Integrity: 60
Armor: 96 tons of standard armor (77, 12+6 aft, 13+6 all others)

Docking Collars: 0
Fighters: 2
Small Craft: 2
Crew: 20
Lifeboats: 4
Escape Pods: 0
Grav Decks: 1 60 meter
Cargo: 1,000

Bay 1: Fighters (2) 1 door
Bay 2: Cargo (1,000) 1 door
Bay 3: Small Craft (2) 1 door

Weapons:

Fore Left / Fore Right
1 NL 35
1 battery of 3 Large lasers


(Designers note: Based on a single vague reference in TR2750. Actually a 
whole lot less than it could have been. The design is underweight by about 
seven thousand tons, but I think the end result fits the undergunned 
surveilance corvette description nicely, and it compares well with its 
contemporaries)

Overview

One of the smallest dedicated combat warships ever deployed by the Terran 
Hegemony, the Bonadventure was a dedicated sensor platform. It played a vital 
role as a picket ship and surveilance vessel in dangerous parts of the inner 
sphere and near periphery, and also opperated alongside Vigilant class 
corvettes in front line naval groups.

The little ship, however, was poorly armed when compared to other corvettes, 
or even many pirate vessels, and had a very poor chance for survival when 
caught alone. This is one of the reasons that it was eventually retired in 
favor of the Vincent class corvette in 2432. Many bonadventures ended up in 
the hands of the great houses and periphery states (the taurians used the 
design as the basis for their successful Defiant class corvette), while 
others were scrapped. However there were aproximately one hundred 
bonadventures still in mothballs at hegemony storage facilities by the time 
of the fall of the star league. Though most of these ships were ultimately 
seized by one house or another for use during the succession wars, as many as 
two dozen are still unacounted for. Though these ships might have been lost 
in the chaos of the Amaris Coup or the Succession wars, nobody knows for 
certain. This makes the Bonadventure and other pre-Star League era warships a 
tantalizing prospect for lostech hunters, prompting legends of hidden fleets 
of warships just waiting to be found. Any such cache fleet would be the find 
of a lifetime, and if it were large enough, would radically alter the balance 
of power in the inner sphere more dramatically than every cache of star 
league battlemechs combined.